After Li Qing drew up a battle plan for cutting off his head, breaking his belly, and cutting off his tail, he consulted with Lei Ming, commander of the Fourth Brigade, Chen Dayong, commander of the Seventh Brigade, Zhao Shan, commander of the Eighth Brigade, and Gao Jinchun, commander of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade

Li Qing said in the telegram that after the completion of the task of this battle, the main force of the Japanese puppet army will be trapped in the area of Zhoucun and Weicheng in Luzhong, so that the eastern Ludong area will present a blank area of the Japanese puppet army, completely disrupt the Japanese army's arrangement, and force the enemy to increase troops in Qingdao, so that the Japanese army in Shandong will not only cut off the north and south, but also present a situation in which the tools cannot be taken care of from the beginning to the end, and the preparation time for the Japanese army to assemble a heavy army group to sweep Shandong will be extended.

During this time, the Japanese army was heavily garrisoned on Jiaoji Road. Among them, the 17th Brigade was stationed in Zhangqiu, the headquarters of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army was stationed in Zhoucun, the headquarters of the 36th Division of the Japanese Army was stationed in the county seat of Weixian, and the 18th Brigade was stationed in Jiaoxian County, plus the garrison of the Jiaoji Railway, not counting the Japanese army in Jinan and the Japanese army in Qingdao, just on the Jiaoji Road, the Japanese army had 50,000 horses. Together with the puppet army, the total military strength of the Japanese puppet army is quite large.

With such a strong military force, the commander of the 12th Army, Iida Sadagu, and the chief adviser, Kobayashi Asaburo, deliberately reorganized the army, and the Japanese army naturally did not stop after the improvement of its combat effectiveness, and swept everywhere with the Jiaoji Road and the Jiqing Highway as the axis, strengthened public security, and inexhaustibly encroached on the base areas of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army's Ludong and Luzhong Reserve armies naturally did not show weakness, relying on the mountainous areas of Luzhong and the tunnel network of Luzhong and Ludong, and fighting with the little devils with the armed cooperation of the premises,-for-tat. However, the Japanese army learned the lesson of the First Planing Division, the 34th Division and the Eighth Route Army last time to eliminate the main force of the Li Wenli Department and successfully send reinforcements, and did not dare to divide the troops and advance rashly, nor did they dare to go deep into the base area of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, in addition to turning the area 50 miles from north to south along the Jiaoji Road into a guerrilla zone, 50,000 Japanese troops actually cowered motionless along the Jiaoji Road and the Jiqing Highway.

The Japanese army was passive, and the Eighth Route Army was also passive. The reason is that the 3rd Brigade and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade should stabilize the situation in the Qinghe base area, the 7th Brigade should stabilize the situation in the Jiaolai base area, the 8th Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade should both guard the Jiaodong base area and monitor the enemy in Qingdao, and the remaining 4th Brigade and the Luzhong Garrison Brigade should not only guard the north gate of the Luzhong Mountains, but also compete with the Japanese puppet army for the plains. It is equivalent to the fact that the main force of the Eighth Route Armament Army fought separately and could not form a powerful fist, and there were many battles and the results were not small, but it did not form an annihilating impact on the main force of the Japanese army, and it was not allowed to change the situation of the Japanese army dividing our base areas according to Jiaoji Road.

When proposing the Lunan Campaign, Liu Yimin made it clear in his telegram to Li Qing that the purpose of our army's concentration of the main forces in the four districts of Jiaodong, Jiaolai, Qinghe, and Luzhong was to further weaken the strength of the puppet army, to inflict a painful blow on the Japanese army, and to make it further fear of our army, and not to dare to sweep our base areas on the scale of divisions and brigades. Even if the Japanese army is ordered to form a heavy army group to sweep away and retaliate, it will also make the Japanese army dare not penetrate deep into the hinterland of our base area for fear of being annihilated.

Li Qing's battle plan of cutting off the head, breaking the abdomen, and cutting off the tail is the embodiment of the spirit of Liu Yimin's instructions in light of the actual conditions on the battlefield in central Shandong.

Late at night on October 9, the Luzhong Group of the Eighth Route Army commanded by Li Qing received the enemy through a tunnel and launched an attack on the Japanese army's western aid to Jinan. First, the 3rd Brigade was taught to assault the vanguard of the Japanese army between Zhangqiu and Zhoucun, followed by the 4th Brigade and the 7th Brigade to concentrate artillery fire and military strength to carry out a powerful attack on the 32nd and 36th Divisions of the Japanese Army between Zhoucun and Weicheng, and then the 8th Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade attacked the baggage troops of the Japanese 1st Guards Division, the 2nd Brigade and the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the 1st Guards Division and the Heavy Artillery Brigade from Qingdao in the high-density area.

The offensive of the Eighth Route Army was extremely rapid, and the Japanese troops who fought retreated step by step, constantly asking for help.

After a night of fierce fighting, the Eighth Route Army stopped attacking, withdrew from the battle, and used the tunnel network to conceal and recuperate.

As early as the occupation of Jinan, Liu Yimin proposed to vigorously grow the tunnel network in Luzhong, and even called for the construction of an underground communication line connecting Qingdao to Jinan, so as to facilitate the movement of the army. And it is proposed that mushrooms can be grown in the tunnel, and the tunnel can be used to engage in military production.

Liu Yimin is the No. 1 leader of our party and army in Shandong, and his orders must be carried out thoroughly. In addition, the Eighth Route Army advocated the two-cropping farming method a year, which gave Shandong Lao Cangsheng a taste of sweetness, and the development of tunnel warfare and mine warfare played a role in protecting themselves and eliminating the invaders, and the Eighth Route Army's call could naturally get the response of Lao Cangsheng. After such a long period of hard work, the tunnel construction in Luzhong has formed a network, although it cannot meet the requirements of the spacious underground passage envisioned by Liu Yimin, but it can completely allow the army to use the tunnel to conceal movement. No, now the tunnel network in Luzhong has played a role in allowing the army to rest in concealment.

In just a few hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was painful to the bone marrow.

After checking the casualties of the troops after Tenmei, the commander of the 32nd Division, Kimura Hyotaro Tenmei, lamented in a telegram to the commander of the 12th Army, Iida Sadagu, and the commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, that the Eighth Route Army had strong artillery fire and strong attacks, that the 32nd and 36th Divisions had suffered heavy losses, and that the 2nd Brigade and Heavy Artillery Brigade of the 1st Guards Division had lost all their baggage. The 32nd Division, the 36th Division, and the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Guards Division were in urgent need of resting on the spot to prevent the Eighth Route Army from instigating another large-scale attack.

However, because the Japanese army had already obtained the news that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had gathered and annihilated the main force of the 10th Division in Fei County, it further shrank under the condition of shrinking its military strength and high alert, and relying on the original Jiaoji Road fortifications to hold on, the main force of our army in Luzhong did not fully achieve the expected campaign purpose. That is to say, our army in Luzhong mobilized four main brigades and one garrison brigade to fight fiercely all night, and although a large number of Japanese troops were killed and wounded, they were not able to destroy the expected Japanese divisions and brigade-sized troops in an organized manner, and even failed to eliminate the Japanese troops on the scale of the wings in a powerful formation, and their own casualties were not small. The angry Li Qing sent a telegram to Liu Yimin, asking for a break in the army and another battle the next night.

When he received Li Qing's telegram, Liu Yimin had already arrived in Teng County and established a headquarters in Teng County.

After the war, they marched overnight, even if the main force of the instructor had already been packed, and the armored regiment and the first and second regiments could even reach the mechanized level, but the soldiers were all human beings and needed to rest, and the Japanese army would send a large number of planes to bomb indiscriminately after dawn, Liu Yimin ordered the reserve army to enter a state of concealment and recuperation, looking forward to sweeping Lunan again at night.

After reading Li Qing's telegram, Liu Yimin was also very depressed. When planning the Lunan Campaign, Liu Yimin's most important thing was to annihilate the enemy in Luzhong, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos of the Japanese army to eliminate a division of the Japanese army in Luzhong or completely defeat the Japanese army's westward reinforcement group. It is a pity that the Japanese army has now become cunning, and Li Qing has to reformulate the battle plan in light of the actual situation on the battlefield. In this way, the five main brigades of our army in Luzhong are tantamount to instigating at the same time on the three battlefields, separating military forces and artillery fire, and the Japanese army closely relying on the Jiaoji Road to defend the ground, and our army's battle in Luzhong will not be able to achieve the expected goal.

Liu Yimin regretted a little, if he had known that this was the case, he should have abandoned the Lunan Battle, and personally led the First Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the New First Brigade, the New Fourth Brigade, the New Eighth Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, and the Air Defense Brigade to the north to participate in the war, that was a Japanese army of 50,000 people, if they could be eliminated, the entire hinterland of Shandong would be recovered by our army again, and the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong would soon change.

Luo Ronghuan saw Liu Yimin holding the telegram in his hand and was silent, and immediately saw through his thoughts, and reminded: "Don't drill the horns, things in the world are changing." We want to annihilate the enemy, and the Japanese army still wants to destroy the Eighth Route Army! Think about it, if it weren't for the main force of our army to participate in the battle in Lunan, it is very likely that the 10th Division of the Japanese Army would have completely defeated or even wiped out Yu Xuezhong's division, and the entire city of Lunan and Luzhong and South China would be exposed under the guns of the Japanese army. Besides, the Japanese army relied on the defensive ground to hold on, and with such a long front, even if the army on the southern front of our army went north to participate in the war, it would not necessarily be able to completely annihilate the Japanese army in Luzhong overnight. In the event of a stalemate in the battle, the large number of Japanese aircraft will cause heavy losses to our troops. After a battle, maybe the military strength of the two brigades will be gone, which is not in line with our army's operational principles. In general, our army achieved the goal of the campaign, and the elimination of the main force of the 10th Division rebuilt by the Japanese army alone was enough to shake the Japanese army. ’

What Luo Ronghuan said is reasonable, Liu Yimin actually understands it in his heart, but since he took charge of the army, he has not shown anything that cannot achieve the goal of the campaign. Even last day, the army fortified on Longhai Road in an attempt to encircle and annihilate our main force in the south, and in the end it was also heavily damaged by our army, which was also a victory and achieved the goal of our army's return to the north. Therefore, after listening to Luo Ronghuan's words, Liu Yimin was still depressed.

Cai Zhong couldn't see the lifeless look on Liu Yimin's face, and reminded: "Commander, don't be unhappy anymore. Li Qing: They are already playing very well. This is also the elite of our army, daring to pounce on the heavy army group composed of 50,000 Japanese troops, and want to swallow it in one bite. If it were Chiang Kai-shek's army, I am afraid that I would not even dare to think about it, let alone be able to withdraw from the battle cleanly and freely after attacking on all fronts. Look at the great victory in the Battle of Changsha, which has been praised repeatedly, did the formation destroy a wing of the Japanese army? It is inconceivable that the 106th Division, which has been continuously hit hard, can break out of the encirclement in the outflanking of several armies. Don't say anything, hurry up and think about the next step, the Japanese army will not turn a blind eye to the annihilation of the main force of the 10th Division, they will definitely retaliate on a large scale. ”

Liu Yimin no longer regretted and assumed, collected his mood, pondered for a while, and called Li Qing back and transferred Lei Ming, Chen Dayong, Zhao Shan, and Gao Jinchun, pointing out that the original plan for this Luzhong operation was to annihilate the enemy by ambush warfare. However, due to the change in the enemy's situation and the leakage of news of the victory in southern Lunan, the Japanese army highly reduced its military strength and relied on fortifications to defend it, and the ambush battle turned into an offensive operation, and it was normal that the expected purpose of the campaign could not be achieved. This shows four points: First, the Japanese army is absolutely not a soft persimmon, and the 32nd Division, the 36th Division, and other Japanese garrison divisions and regiments in North China must not be viewed from the old perspective of the Japanese garrison division when it first entered the battlefield. These garrison divisions and regiments, tempered and intensively trained on the battlefield, have become elite troops with strong combat effectiveness. This is evident that the Japanese army did not present the original situation of being defeated in one battle. The second is to annihilate the Japanese army's division, brigade, and regimental level, and the best method of operation is ambush warfare, setting up an ambush with superior military strength, adopting the methods of enigmatizing, confusing and luring the enemy, persuading the king to enter the urn, and annihilating him with one drum. For example, our army's annihilation of the 8th and 10th Divisions and the 10th Division of the Japanese army, which was destroyed and rebuilt this time, are all classics of this tactic. Third, under field conditions, our army can concentrate three times or even 10 times the enemy's superior military strength to copy the Japanese army in the course of the movement, so as to achieve the goal of rapidly annihilating the enemy. Fourth, when attacking the heavily fortified positions of the Japanese army, our army's artillery fire should be several times that of the enemy and its military strength should be several times that of the enemy, and preparations should be made in advance and the method of continuous combat should be adopted in order to achieve the goal. If the conditions are not met, it will not be possible to forcibly attack the Japanese heavy army group.

Liu Yimin encouraged Li Qing in the telegram, saying that the battle not only played a role in investigating the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army after large-scale training, but also tested the combat effectiveness of our army. Under the condition that the Japanese army is almost equal in strength, and the Japanese army relies on the existing positions to hold on, our army is still able to carry out a large-scale attack on the enemy with lightning speed, forcing the Japanese army to retreat again and again, throwing away its armor, attacking and destroying the enemy, and then retreating freely, and the casualties are also controlled within a reasonable scale, which shows that our army is worthy of being the elite of a hundred battles and the main force of resistance against Japan. If it were an ordinary army, the attack would last for a long time, the casualties would be too large, and it would be bombed by the Japanese air force during the day, and if it was not done well, it would suffer heavy losses in the Japanese army's counterattack.

Liu Yimin instructed our army in Luzhong to carry out high-frequency guerrilla warfare against the Japanese army with the armed camouflage main force of the small army command office, so as to exhaust the Japanese army and prevent it from exerting all its strength to flank Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda's troops in the Jinan area. The 3rd, 4th, and 7th Brigades immediately turned to the goal of Jinan, assisted Yuan Guoping's troops and Xu Guangda's troops to sweep through the Jinan area with all their might, completely destroyed the puppet regime and puppet forces rebuilt by the Japanese army, and caused a heavy force to threaten Jinan, and re-sought fighters in the periphery of Jinan, striving to complete the task of destroying at least one brigade of the main force of the Japanese army. The key combat target was the 17th Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Tongqiu; The 8th Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade persisted in the Ludong operation, taking the 2nd Brigade and the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army and the 18th Brigade of the Self-Reinforced Mixed Brigade stationed in Jiaoxian as their operational objectives, striving to lure the enemy away from the fortified towns and cities, and to use night battles to annihilate the enemy in the field and further deplete the Japanese army. After completing the task, the garrison brigade returned to the defense base area, and the main force was concealed and concentrated, preparing to deal with the heavy sweep of the Japanese army